Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

May we rejoice in the corners of our New York City bedroom apartments and dining tables, may it be fuel for the fight against capitalism, racism, imperialism, and Zionism around the world.

- Fatima Mohammed in a commencement speech at University of New York (CUNY) Law School

This hate-filled and dangerous speech has been brought to you by @CUNY and paid for by New York taxpayers. Keep this in mind next time our elected leaders highlight their commitment to fighting antisemitism.

- Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein

Imagine being so crazed by hatred for Israel as a Jewish State that you make it the subject of your commencement speech at a law school graduation. Anti-Israel derangement syndrome at work

- Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY)

The first question the professors and classmates usually ask is how old I am. They are surprised at what I am doing here and always curious about the points of my quizzes and exams. However, after a while, I have shown a serious attitude toward my study; they all believe in my ability and determination to get good grades.

- 12-year-old Clovis Hung, who graduated last week from Fullerton College in California with Associate degrees in History, Social Sciences, Social Behavior and Self-Development Arts and Human Expression, and Science and Mathematics

She’s very excited. She’s excited, happy and proud.

- Sam Kaplan, age 72, upon obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Media Arts from Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia, talking about his 99-year old mother who attended the graduation ceremony

Republicans got outsmarted by a president who can’t find his pants.

- South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) on Fox News, talking about the debt limit deal

[Sen. Tim Scott] is one of these guys who, you know, he’s like Clarence Thomas, Black Republican, who believes in pulling himself by your bootstraps. Rather than, to me, understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country and other minorities.

- The View’s Joy Behar, who is white, talking about Sen. Scott, a black Republican who is running for president

He doesn’t get it. Neither does, Clarence — and that’s why they’re Republicans.

- Ibid.

The Russians are dying. Best money we’ve ever spent.

- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) at a meeting in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Zelensky

If Lady Graham really said that the money for the killing of Russians is the best money the U.S. ever spent, I hope that in our country, the sons or grandchildren of Sudoplatov are alive, his pupils, or the descendants of his pupils. It’s not even hard. We have his address.

- Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the Russian state media outlet Russia Today, invoking Pavel Sudoplatev, a Soviet general who helped plan the assassination of Leon Trotsky, while talking about Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

Here’s an offer to my Russian “friends” who want to arrest and try me for calling out the Putin regime as being war criminals: I will submit to jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court if you do. Come and make your best case. See you in The Hague!

- Sen. Lindsey Graham, responding to Russia calling for his arrest

How about the fact that he had the third most deaths of any state having to do with the China virus or Covid? Even Cuomo did better. He was number four.

- Former President Donald Trump criticizing Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Covid record

“Even Cuomo did better” is one of the dumbest things ever uttered. Also, he’s using absolute numbers of deaths rather than adjusted for the population of the states. Which is ridiculous, of course.

– Tweet by Ben Shapiro in response

I think he did great for three years, but when he turned the country over to Fauci in March of 2020, that destroyed millions of people’s lives.

– Gov. Ron DeSantis, in an interview with Glenn Beck, responding to Trump’s criticism

I’ve visited red states and blue states, and I’ve found that the common values that unite us are deeper than our divisions.

– Frist Lady Jill Biden at a conference in Washington

And, um, I thought you might clap for that.

- Ibid., after a few seconds of silence

Everyone knows that I’m a person that believes in health, so when you talk about not discriminating against someone because of their body type, it’s not fighting against obesity; it’s just being fair. And science has shown that body type is not a connection to if you are healthy or unhealthy. I think that’s a misnomer.

- New York City Mayor Eric Adams upon signing a bill banning height and weight discrimination in New York City

This MAGA Supreme Court is continuing to erode our country’s environmental laws. Make no mistake—this ruling will mean more polluted water and more destruction of wetlands. We’ll keep fighting to protect our waters.

Crime is soaring. Retailers in San Francisco, the city Newsom once ran, have been fleeing from once-coveted Union Square. Radical Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón, who won in 2020 with Newsom’s endorsement and with the help of millions of dollars in spending by George Soros, is said to have a 10,000-case backlog, and is boasting about how much prison time he has helped convicts avoid. But don’t worry. California has Skittles under control.

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I consider the heroes the ones that gave their lives, that never came home to their families. They’re the real heroes.

I’m really sorry to kids. I wanted to get off the plane soon.

- A 33-year-old South Korean man who opened the plane’s door midflight, apologizing outside of court